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born 1973 United States

Joe Kehoskie (born January 18, 1973) is an American baseball consultant, executive, and entrepreneur who is often quoted in the media on baseball-related issues. Kehoskie has worked in professional baseball in a variety of capacities since 1984, formerly working in minor league baseball (1984–1994) and as a player agent (1996–2011).

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Random Joe Kehoskie quote

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There's at least half a billion dollars [worth] of baseball players in Cuba right now and probably a lot more.

It's the wild, wild West of baseball, and it just keeps getting wilder.

You take 5 percent of Contreras's $30 million, you're retired.

Fidel Castro essentially forced these guys to leave Cuba. It wasn't really even a choice. It was either stay at home, be handed a broom and told 'have a nice life' or they could leave Cuba and continue playing baseball.

'Social distancing is a good place to start'? After plunging the global economy into a depression based on little more than a panic-induced guess, one hates to even ponder what the (alleged) experts might have in mind for us next.

[Chapman] is a strong candidate for being the fool’s gold of the current free-agent market.

In many if not most cases, Cuban players haven’t been busts so much as they’ve been systematically over-hyped during the signing process, which led to unrealistic expectations around Major League Baseball and in the media. The vast majority of Cuba’s truly elite players have either stayed in Cuba for their entire careers or left Cuba too late to have a meaningful MLB career.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joe Kehoskie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.